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PROF. DR. FREUD
BERCHTESGADEN; DIETFELDHOF1
23 July 1908
Dear Colleague,
Thank you very much for your paper on dementia præcox and hysteria,2 which arrived today. I value the resolute tone and clarity of your writings so highly that I must ask you not to think that I overlook their beauty. May I say that it is consanguineous Jewish traits that attract me to them? We understand each other, don't we?
You also know what it is that mars my pleasure in your paper. It makes manifest your latent quarrel with Jung. You certainly had every justification for writing in that way, but it would have shown greater delicacy of feeling not to have made use of it. At the time I gave the same suggestion to each of you and had no intention other than that each should take it up and work on it independently. In picking it up, you are to an extent forcing him to the other side.
When I go to Zurich as arranged at the end of September, I shall try to make good what can be made good. Please do not misunderstand me; I have nothing to reproach you with; I nurse a suspicion that the suppressed